Traduction de «Débit d'une ligne » (Français → Anglais) :

33. Notes that Croatia has made significant progress with aligning its policy, legislation and regulations with the acquis on electronic communications and information technologies and encourages the Croatian authorities to promote internet access as widely as possible; welcomes the fact that the switchover to digital television broadcasting has been handled successfully; however, regrets that in spite of the regulations in place, competition on the fixed broadband market still remains limited;

46. Notes that in order to maximise broadband availability and adoption, EU policy must encourage the deployment of efficient and affordable networks, applications, access equipment, services and content; encourages Member States to develop e-government, e-democracy, e-learning and e-health services, which will boost the demand for broadband;

4. Considers therefore that the objective must be to establish EU global leadership in ICT infrastructure; in order to achieve this objective, 100% of basic broadband coverage must be delivered to all Europeans by 2013, giving at least 2Mbps service to all users in rural areas and much higher speeds to users in other areas; draws the Commission's attention to the fact that, in order to counter a digital divide, basic coverage in rural areas will need to take account of increasing transmission requirements for innovative internet services such as e-government, e-health or e-learning; takes the view that, when considering how such targets ...[+++]should be funded, utmost account should be taken of competition in order to avoid market distortions and to allow the market to deliver solutions in the first instance;

There are currently 124 million fixed and 25 million mobile broadband subscriber lines in the EU.

There are currently 124 million fixed and 25 million mobile broadband subscriber lines in the EU.

If today the differences between an area where only narrowband Internet is available (dial-up) and an area where broadband exists means that the former is a ‘white’ area, likewise an area that lacks a next generation broadband infrastructure, but may still have one basic broadband infrastructure in place should also be considered a ‘white’ area.